The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-06
The Cnre of Trees.


The Woman's Educational Associa-
ton of Boston, several months, ago
engaged Prof. Goodale, of Harvard
college to give a course of lectures on
botanical subjects. His last lecture
was entitled "Some Hints About the
Care of Trees After stating that ma
ture knows how to SOW seeds, he con-
tinued by saying: Take any one Of
our trees-for example willow: The
catkins are now increasing in size, tho
seeds are ripcning, by the end of June,
they will be ready to be dispersed.
BY means of the delicate hairs at
tached. these seeds will be carried to
u great distance. Falling on dry
soil, they will amount to nothing, but
in damp soil they will terminate ut
once; two cotyledons, Il little shoot and
little wood will be made. The coty-
ledons and other leaves will fall off in
the fall but there will be terminal
bud and probably two or three more
auxiliary buds left behind. So the lit
tie feeding will do very well through
the winter and will grow on next
spring. II we took this willow seed.
kept 1t through winter, and planted it
in the spring what would occur? The
conditions are very different, for the
vitality of these seeds is retained for "A
short time only and can not stand a
thorough drying. The oak seed, on
the other hand, will last for three OF
four years. Watch an acorn AZ
il falls to the ground. 1t does
not start the first year. and
sometimes not the second year either.
This is true of the hard nuts. Being
covered up by falling leaves, ii is kept
warm and moist. and when il finally
starts will produce three or four rough
leaves. Plant this in the house and IL
will make a growth of three or four
inches. or even II foot, in the first sea
SON. But this is not as nature intend
ed il to be. When seeds are planted
for study care should be taken to pre-
serve natural conditions as far rs pos
sible. Use a sandy soil, a mixture OF
equal parts sand. leaf mold, and peat.
This keeps damp without being wet
Plant IN shallow wooden pans with Stats
or perforating in the bottom. and keep
moist but not wet Sow very thickly.
The moist will start. and then comes
the struggle for existence. In nature
few come to anything, but many are
wished for study, so they must he
"picked OUT Gifted with bit of wood
or znc). when they have two or three
trough leaves to another pan, where
they will have more room. Keep in
cool house or in pit covered over so
that it may b. opened on warm days to
harden them up. A Seeding runs
through its cycle rapidly in the house.
and should be cut back to make it
'stocky." When seedlings have at
tanned height to necessitate a third
.'pricking of" set out Be careful
not to keep too wet
As to the management of gratis and
buds only few general pr nciples can
be given Remember that stem is
made up of pith. wood, and bark. and
between the wood and bark is the cam
blum LAYER, the source and point of
growth for both wood and bark, the
vital point of the tree. Any graft or
cutting from some other tree which We
may wish TO grow upon this stem has
also the pilh. wood. bark and cambium
LAYER. and the condition of success is to
have these two cambium layers brought
together and firmly united The most
common way TO DO this is to cut
branch of squarely and split it down
for little; then insert in this split the
graft cut wedge-shape at the base.
so that the two cambium layers are in
contact. TIE the whole firmly. and ex-
clude air and moisture from the wound
by coating of wax made from bees